Yes, these photographs of upside-down dogs are hysterical, but that is not why I am posting them.
I think this might be an interesting resource for animation students as inspiration for (non-dog) character designs.
Some look like aliens…
While other’s are just head-turners.
…and some just make me smile :)
Take a peak at upsidedowndogs.com - enjoy!
Tsk-tsk - here is a gallery of some news photos that were faked using Photoshop. I don’t think news photographers should be faking their photos but if they are going to use the Clone Stamp Tool they should at least use it well. Apparently I am not the only one that feels this way, several of these photographers and their editors lost their jobs…
This one is classic - see if you can spot the cloned soldiers (no I don’t mean stormtroopers - duh!)
thanks, Chris
I used to link to Adi Granov’s excellent tutorial about colorizing hand-drawn artwork in Photoshop, but he took the tutorial down a year or two ago. I was pleased to find an archived version of the tutorial recently. Click the image above and download the pdf (source files too! and bask in it’s goodness. One modification of Mr. Granov’s technique that I would recommend is coloring separate objects on separate layers rather than doing all of the coloring on one layer.
Hey, Interior Design Students! This same process works for colorizing autocad drawings in Photoshop. Just export a .tif from Autocad and open it in Photoshop and follow all of the same steps.
Enjoy!
Mrs. King and I have more than a passing interest in architecture. We started a website, Modern Phoenix, in 2003 when we decided that our stucco condo was not where we wanted to live anymore. Our interests range from the homes built after WWII to some of the austere, minimal designs being built today. We read everything we could find online and started driving around Phoenix taking photographs of everything we liked. We started to post these photographs as well as links to historic documents and architect’s websites. Soon we were getting tons of traffic which increased exponentially when we installed a message board for people to talk about these topics. These online discussions and friendships became face-to-face when we had our first home tour in April of 2004, which has now grown to a two-day event co-sponsored by SMOCA and Desert Living Magazine each April.
Enough History. I’d like to invite any interested students to join us at an event this weekend at some new condos called Mezzo designed by world-renown architect, Will Bruder, who is perhaps best known for the Burton-Barr Library built in the 1990s on Central Avenue near McDowell Road. This event is a rare opportunity to hear Mr. Bruder speak about his own designs in such a small venue. The event will be catered by Lisa G Winebar (num-num tasty food!) and also features a talk with Andy Byrnes of Construction Zone, which is a very interesting design/build firm that built Mezzo.
Did I mention the event is free? If you are interested in architecture, interior design or just want to see some doubleplus -cool homes then come down and join the mophos on Saturday.
Saturday, November 1st from 4.30-7.30pm @ 12th Street and Osborn (Don’t worry, the photo in google’s streetview is old, the condo’s are totally finished and lookin’ fine!)
The Downtown Phoenix Partnership just debuted new branding for the Copper Square area in downtown Phoenix. There is a pretty interesting discussion of this branding on the forums at ModernPhoenix.net.
Summary
Q: How did we get such a craptacular logo?
A: Design by committee!
One of the modernphoenix.net members managed to get some slides from the presentation that explains the inspiration for the new logo. Their design choices and inspiration make sense when you see them explained but the end result is really forgettable and generic in my opinion…
Another great tutorial at Vectortuts, this time focusing on the use of Art Brushes to achieve what Alison coined the “thick/thin” technique. I think the ability to modulate your line thickness is key to producing quality illustrator artwork, whether used for a hand drawn-feel or in a more precise manner.
Art brushes are a great way to rock the thick/thin. Just be sure to remember that they can be useful in situations where are trying to achieve a more refined look than covered here.
Wow, Bonus Video! How about video tutorial about brushes from Adobe! Too bad their artwork is ugly and doesn’t communicate coffee beans at all.
Stug makes laptop sleeves and bags from recycled printing blankets. Each bag is unique. Very cool.
I really like projectors and I really like type. That must mean that I really, really like projected type. I also really like core77 which is a interdisciplinary design blog that leans towards industrial design and education. good stuff.